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Admiralty may take security for payment of expences of inquiry.
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6. Before instituting any such inquiry the said Lords Commissioners may, if they think fit, require and take such security for the payment of the whole or any part of the costs, charges, and expences to be incurred by them in respect of such inquiry (including the remuneration of the inspectors) as to them shall seem fit; and whenever any such security is given, the costs, charges, and expences, in respect whereof it is given, shall, to such amount as shall be certified by the said Lords Commissioners, (not exceeding the extent or amount of such security,) be a debt due to her Majesty from the person or persons respectively by whom the same is entered into.
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